Aboriginal Canadians plant seeds for Swedish Model Forest

A model forest is a place where a range of forest stakeholders build partnerships and integrate their often diverse interests into a common goal of developing, testing and sharing the best possible sustainable forest management practices. Three Aboriginal Canadians, Gene Kimbley, Sam W. Gull and Valerie Courtois, all in some way associated with the Canadian Model Forest Network (CMFN), visited Västerbotten county in northern Sweden March 22-25, to meet with Sami reindeer herders and other Swedes interested in how the model forest concept can help provide solutions to local land use conflicts.